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We build bridges between builders, researchers & funders transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
Transforming funding models & mechanisms for public goods.
Builders of Resilience: A Hackathon by Funding the Commons
August 4–31, 2025 · Virtual
How do we design infrastructure that holds up when things break down—and holds together what matters most?
Join developers, designers, researchers, and advocates to prototype resilient infrastructure for public goods. Over four weeks, we’ll explore systems that withstand pressure, scale responsibly, and support the commons. Details coming soon.
Funding the Commons Residency: Argentina 2025
October–November 2025
The Funding the Commons Residency is a co-living and collaboration program for builders, researchers, and system designers developing decentralized tools and infrastructure for the commons.
Set in Argentina and co-timed prior to DevConnect, the residency supports focused work, peer exchange, dedicated mentorship, and public visibility—giving builders the structure and network to accelerate their work. More details coming soon!
Funding the Commons:
Buenos Aires 2025
November 18 · Location TBA
A conference on financial inclusion, public infrastructure, and systems built for real-world use—happening during the DevConnect week in Argentina.
Argentina’s builders are constructing resilience in real time—developing tools for payments, coordination, and governance in the face of inflation, capital controls, and institutional fragmentation. More details coming soon!
Achievements
Growing the Network = More Commons Funded
13 Succesful Conferences
9 Countries
3 Continents
Appearances in other conferences
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
650M+ Connections
50+ Speakers
1000 + Attendees
5000 + Online Community Members
25 Projects Impacted
# of projects in hackathons
# of projects presented
# of residencies
Conferences
Live events featuring high-potential projects, speakers, funders & workshop opportunities
Impact
Growing the Network = Funding More Commons
11 Successful Conferences
9 countries
3 continents
5 pop-ups in other conferences
2000+ Total Attendees
1485 total attendees
400 total speakers
115 sponsors
Over 200 Projects Impacted
116 projects in hackathons
180 projects presented
over 5,000 community members
Builder Residencies
Are you a builder or researcher working on public goods?
Explore this unique collective experience to propel your project forward. Our next residency in Chiang Mai, Thailand includes:
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1-month co-living experience
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collaborative community workshops
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mentorship & peer-support
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connection & continuous education
Hackathons
To fuel innovation!
Organized to produce new public goods funding infrastructure for web3, and integrate existing public goods funding infrastructure.
Sponsor challenges, prizes, and mentorship to directly engage with hackathon participants
Collective expertise of partner organizations will be leveraged to support projects.
Existing public goods funding infrastructure will be leveraged to fund and incubate winning hackathon participants.
Community Love
Constantina Bakolitsa
Researcher @ Berkeley
Enabling communication and the growth of relationships (work and otherwise) between attendees from such vastly different realms of life is, I believe, critical for creating a new transformative Culture of the Commons.
Carl Cervone
Speaker
Congrats to Funding the Commons! The combo of big ideas - builder energy is exceptional.
Al Smith
Speaker
Funding the Commons events have been excellent ways for the Tor Project to meet people who are not part of our 'traditional ecosystem' but have clear values alignment and are working towards similar things. Some strong relationships have been forged because of these events. Thanks for doing what you do!
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Earth Commons
Check out our sister conference focused on the transformation of funding and governance of nature’s commons
Earth Commons was originally incubated as Sustainable Blockchain Summit from within the Filecoin Green Team at Protocol Labs as a conference series sitting at the nexus of Web3 and Climate.
Today, the Funding the Commons Team has inherited the conference series. We are building out an ecosystem focused on underscoring the systemic, interdependent changes necessary for progress in governing planetary commons, such as forests, fisheries, oceans, biodiversity, freshwater reservoirs, and other ecosystem services, by uniting the forces of Web2, Web3, research, philanthropy, and industry.
Building a Better Tomorrow
We accelerate the development and implementation of blockchain-based infrastructure for public goods funding. By nurturing a diverse ecosystem across Web2, Web3, academia, public sector institutions, philanthropy and industry, we aim to cultivate the interdependent systemic changes necessary for better management of public goods.
We envision a world where human coordination at scale inherently prioritizes commons, with the brightest global talent focused on public good innovation, backed by robust impact evaluation systems, and sustained by continuous capital flows.
